Description

NY 65 NE COANWOOD LAMBLEY

6/124 Lambley Farmhouse and
adjacent outbuildings

GV II

House C16 or early C17, perhaps incorporating medieval fabric, outshut added C18,
facade remodelled late C18 or early C19, altered later Cl9 and C20; outbuildings
late C16 or early C17,altered. Squared stone (re-used from the medieval priory),
rubble dressings, slate roofs. 2 storeys, 5 bays, symmetrical. Central renewed
door with latticed overlight, flanked by C20 margined sashes. 1st floor has 5
C20 sash windows in old openings. Coped gables, left end stack brick, right end
stack stone. Lower outbuildings to right in two sections; first part 2 storeys,
2 irregular bays. C20 window with small C17 chamfered window to left. 1st floor
2 C20 sashes with small C17 window to left. Second part 2 storeys, 1 wide bay.
central boarded door with truncated triangular head and heavy dressings, probably
re-set. Above and to left boarded pitching door; below eaves a long line of
pigeon holes with alighting band beneath. Left return shows re-used medieval
voussoirs. Rear elevation: outbuilding to left has boarded door in C17 chamfered
surround. Interior; internal west wall of eastern outbuilding has blocked ogee-
headed niche and corbels above carrying fireplace, later cut through to form
doorway. Interior of house has one C18 fireplace with chamfered surround.

The site of the medieval Lambley priory, a Benedictine nunnery, is thought to
lie in the field south of the farm; sundry architectural fragments lie in the
house garden or have been re-used in the house and farm buildings. The present
house has walls over a metre thick which may be medieval.
The two sections of outbuilding to the east represent later dwellings
of bastle-house type, the second largely rebuilt.

Listing NGR: NY6742559411

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26651847

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